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Week starting Monday, December 15, 2014

Degas: A New Vision offers the most significant international survey in nearly 30 years of the work of Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas. The MFAH is the only U.S. venue for this exhibition, which assembles some 200 works from public and private collections around the world.

In the ancient Americas, the image of the jaguar, harpy eagle, howler monkey, and other beings were used to bestow supernatural powers, to protect, and for worship. During this 45-minute tour of the exhibition Fangs,[…]

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens presents a night of holiday cheer and live music! Taste festive foods of the past, including adult beverages, and see costumed actors bring the exhibition Yuletide: Holiday Time at Bayou[…]

All ages and levels are welcome to draw in the galleries during Rienzi’s open sketching hours! The galleries hold treasures for every artist: space and light, interior design, historical narrative, decorative motifs, reflective surfaces, intriguing[…]

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens presents a night of holiday cheer and live music! Taste festive foods of the past, including adult beverages, and see costumed actors bring the exhibition Yuletide: Holiday Time at Bayou[…]

Celebrate the season by touring Rienzi while it is beautifully decorated for the holidays. Enjoy live seasonal music and a reception of holiday sweets, including wine and eggnog. Docents guide visitors through the home, highlighting the[…]

Speaker: Dena Woodall, associate curator, prints and drawings. Learn about three period prints from the MFAH collection that are on view in Rienzi’s exhibition Comfort and the Eighteenth-Century Interior. Dena Woodall explains how images of novel, upholstered[…]

"Magnificent" —New York Times From the excitement of new exhibition openings to fascinating insights about great works of art, the spectacular new National Gallery takes you behind the scenes of the prestigious London institution. This immersive[…]